Category: Stories from Spring Spur Stay

Get on your high horse here at Bogong Horseback adventures. Our tours over the Mount Bogong massif include the highest licensed riding terrain in Australia. Featuring the open herb fields of the Australian alps, spectacular views, this un-roaded country is ideally suited to packhorse expeditions.

Named after a local goldmine tucked away in the nearby mountains, Red is adding his strong Australian Stock Horse bloodlines to the Spring Spur mountain horses, bred and trained here on the stud and in our backyard – the High Country.

The infamous Kelly Gang camped at the mountain hideout of earlier bushranger Bogong Jack on the Fainter Range, March 2002. Peter Carey alludes to the “real” Ned Kelly camping in this lonely site in his early years, in his novel “True History of the Kelly Gang”. The actors playing the part of the gang in